Street View · Materials · Reveal
Materials in Street View
Where does an ordinary person encounter materials during a normal day?
Why this lens matters
Materials ground a world in ecology, extraction, scarcity, craft and dependence.
Follow-ups
- Where do they come from?
- Who controls access to them?
- What becomes scarce, toxic, sacred or expensive?
- What substitutions exist, and who uses them?
- What ecological consequences follow?
Perspective shift
How would a maker or repairer describe this differently from an ordinary user?
Perturbation
What changes when the key material becomes scarce, banned or contaminated?
Example
Use this while working on the ordinary lived perspective and daily routines: choose one concrete detail and ask how materials changes what it means.